Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, is awash in small-town trappings: tree-lined roads, rolling lawns, and street signs at every corner. On this Wednesday midsummer morning, the familiar routine ...

Typically, there are two options for the deceased: a casket burial or cremation. Both can be costly. According to funeralocity, the average price for burial is $3,782 and direct cremation is $2,245.

Those who are considering cremation as their final disposition are not alone. Cremations have been steadily increasing in the United States for decades. A recent report by the National Funeral ...

There's strong demand for water cremations, just months after the service first became available in New Zealand.

The country’s first water crematorium which opened in Christchurch in early June, is proving a popular option for Kiwis. There have now been 55 water cremations at New Zealand’s first Water ...

Francisco Rivero proudly shows off a large stainless steel pod in the middle of a cavernous concrete room. He unlatches its heavy vault door, swinging it open slowly to reveal an inner chamber just ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday allowing funeral homes in the state to use a process called “alkaline hydrolysis” to liquefy human remains — a more earth friendly form of cremation ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill filed in the Texas Legislature calls for funeral homes to be allowed to cremate human remains through the process of alkaline hydrolysis. According to the Cremation ...

Archaeologists excavating in the French Riviera have uncovered a massive Roman cremation cemetery. Careful work at the site ...